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January 11, 2022 - The Kings of Accidental Tourism strike again. A small geography lesson to help the Croatian National Tourist Board in its promotional efforts. It used to be funny, but now I just find it rather sad. Or perhaps pathetic is a better description.  Our beloved Croatian National Tourism Board is at it again with its legendary promotional fails, this time with the onboard literature on Croatia Airlines.  The sad part is that the vast majority of people who work at the Croatian National Tourist Board headquarters probably do not even know the name of the river that…

January 11, 2022 - The Tourist Board of the City of Nin invites all interested participants to apply by 31 January 2022 for the 20th Nin Šokolijada Festival. It is a unique international gastronomic event that celebrates an important brand in the city of Nin. The Nin šokolijada is a unique dried meat product made from pork neck. It is scarce and difficult to find because it is done only in Nin and the Nin coast. The art of making the šokolijada is, by its very nature, an intangible cultural heritage. Since 2003, the Tourist Board of the town of Nin and its diligent families have been…

January 11, 2022 - The city of Zadar presented its bronze model at the end of last year, being the last city to have one and thus joining others such as Zagreb, Split, Dubrovnik, Šibenik, or Karlovac. The sculpture seeks to promote the cultural heritage of the city and has special features. At the end of last year, the city of Zadar presented its bronze model, a sculptural reduced spatial representation of the historic core of the city that was set up on Bedemi, reports Turističke Priče. The aim of setting up this interactive sculpture is to contribute to the promotion of…

January the 11th, 2022 - Move aside Croatian craft beer! The very first Croatian craft tea has come to life through a long family tradition that has been turned into a business. Odores Silentii offers something entirely new to the Croatian market. As Poslovni Dnevnik/Marta Duic writes, Odores Silentii is a domestic brand of teas and accessories for serving it, behind which lies a warm family business story. According to Magdalena Sekulic, the first ideas and products were created as hobbies and owing to the personal enjoyment of natural home-made plants and teas back during 2018. Today, Odores Silentii has gradually…

January the 11th, 2022 - Croatian festive tourism results are allowing for the thought that this summer season could be the comeback for what we've missed over the last couple of pandemic-dominated tourist seasons, despite how remarkably well summer 2021 turned out. Zagreb, famous for its Advent in Zagreb offer, is still in the lead when it comes to winter tourism. As Poslovni Dnevnik/Marija Crnjak writes, although the situation with the coronavirus pandemic in Croatia and the immediate region isn't exactly encouraging at this moment in time, in December and during the winter festive period, the positive trend for Croatian…

January the 11th, 2022 - The new Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus has taken Europe by storm, sweeping through country after country with some richer Northern European nations such as the United Kingdom recording eye-watering infection rates despite having a very high vaccination rate. Croatian epidemiologist Branko Kolaric has spoken out about Omicron, stating that while this variant is the mildest of all so far, he doesn't believe that it will necessarily lead to herd immunity. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, epidemiologist Branko Kolaric of the Croatian Institute of Public Health has stated that he is far from surprised by…

January the 11th, 2022 - Croatian company teams have impressed some truly global giants in Las Vegas recently. From Amazon to Microsoft and Apple, huge names have shown interest in what these Croatian company teams have to offer. As Poslovni Dnevnik/Lucija Spiljak writes, the winners of Idea Knockout - Sportreact, Codelab, Iron Bull and Orqa - presented their innovationd at the world's largest Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which took place in Las Vegas for the 55th time from January the 5th to the 8th, 2022. They were joined by the Croatian startup Zuluhood, which was among the ten most promising…

ZAGREB, 10 Jan 2022 - The works on Pelješac Bridge will wrap up by the end of the month and the access roads are coming along too, so this tourist season it will be possible to drive across the bridge, Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said on Monday while visiting the site in southern Croatia. There is ten more days' work on the bridge and a peak traffic test is planned for the end of the month, to be followed by technical checks, he added. "As announced, the construction of Pelješac Bridge will be near completion by the end of January 2022." He said…

ZAGREB, 10 Jan 2022 - The main Zagreb Stock Exchange (ZSE) indices continued to grow on Monday, with the Crobex increasing by 0.08% to 2140.59 points and the Crobex10 rising by 0.34% to 1299.07 points, and regular turnover doubled compared to Friday. Regular turnover was HRK 8.4 million, twice as much as the HRK 4.2 million generated on Friday. The highest turnover, of HRK 1.8 million, was generated by the HT telecommunications company. Its price dropped by 0.54% to HRK 184. The Valamar Riviera stock turned over HRK 1.63 million, closing at HRK 35 per share, up 0.86%. A total…

ZAGREB, 10 Jan 2022 - The national COVID-19 crisis management team on Monday published tighter restrictions against COVID-19 on its website, and those tighter rules will be effective as of Tuesday. The restrictions cap public gatherings at 50 in case of open-air events, and in the event that participants have COVID certificates the maximum number could be 200 if local response teams okay them. Indoor private social gatherings are capped at 25. There can be a maximum of 50 persons at the site of private gatherings provided that all of them have COVID certificates. Hospitality establishments can operate without any new restrictions, however, they…